Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour, born in Brooklyn in New York, USA, is an award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, and mother of three. Sarsour, a member of Justice League NYC, co-chaired the 2015 March2Justice, a four hundred-kilometre march from New York City to Washington, DC, advocating for legislative reform to end racial profiling and demilitarise police. Sarsour is a former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and a co-founder of Muslims for Ferguson and of MPOWER Change, the first Muslim online organising platform. She co-chaired the historic 2017 Women's March on Washington and its ongoing calls to action.